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Back to the future: revisiting HIV-1 lethal mutagenesis.
Trends in microbiology - 1 Feb 2013
Dapp Michael J, Patterson Steven E, Mansky Louis M
Abstract excerpt
The concept of eliminating HIV-1 infectivity by elevating the viral mutation rate was first proposed over a decade ago, even though the general concept had been conceived earlier for RNA viruses. Lethal mutagenesis was originally viewed as a novel chemotherapeutic approach for treating HIV-1 infection in which use of a viral mutagen would over multiple rounds of replication lead to the lethal accumulation of...
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